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A multi-wavelength spatial and temporal analysis of solar high energy electrons is conducted using the August 20, 2002 flare of an unusually flat (gamma=1.8) hard X-ray spectrum. The flare is studied using RHESSI, Halpha, radio, TRACE, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Kasparova , M. Karlicky , E. P. Kontar , R. A. Schwartz , B. R. Dennis

Data from recent numerical simulations of the solar corona and transition region are analysed and the magnetic field connection between the low corona and the photosphere is found to be close to that of a potential field. The fieldline to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 B. V. Gudiksen , Å. Nordlund

The Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) has observed more than 80,000 solar energetic events since its launch on February $12^{\rm th}$, 2002. Using this large sample of observed flares, we studied the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-18 L. G. Balázs , N. Gyenge , M. B. Korsós , T. Baranyi , E. Forgács-Dajka , I. Ballai

High energy electrons carry much of a solar flare's energy. Therefore, understanding changes in electron beam distributions during their propagation is crucial. A key focus of this paper is how the co-spatial return current reduces the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-26 Meriem Alaoui , Gordon D. Holman , Marc Swisdak

We investigate the heating of an erupting prominence and loops associated with a coronal mass ejection and X-class flare. The prominence is seen in absorption in EUV at the beginning of its eruption. Later the prominence changes to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Jin-Yi Lee , John C. Raymond , Katharine K. Reeves , Yong-Jae Moon , Kap-Sung Kim

We investigate the evolution of differential emission measure distribution (DEM[T]) in various phases of a B8.3 flare, which occurred on July 04, 2009. We analyze the soft X-ray (SXR) emission in 1.6-8.0 keV range, recorded collectively by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Arun Kumar Awasthi , Barbara Sylwester , Janusz Sylwester , Rajmal Jain

We investigate multi-spacecraft observations of the January 17, 2010 solar energetic particle event. Energetic electrons and protons have been observed over a remarkable large longitudinal range at the two STEREO spacecraft and SOHO…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-11 Nina Dresing , Raúl Gómez-Herrero , Andreas Klassen , Bernd Heber , Yulia Kartavykh , Wolfgang Dröge

Current state-of-the-art spectrographs cannot resolve the fundamental spatial (sub-arcseconds) and temporal scales (less than a few tens of seconds) of the coronal dynamics of solar flares and eruptive phenomena. The highest resolution…

The daily measurements of the disc-integrated solar radio flux, observed by the Radio Solar Telescope Network (RSTN), at 245, 410, 610, 1415, 2695, 4995, and 8800 MHz during the time interval of 1989 January 1 to 2019 December 17, are used…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-28 N. B. Xiang , X. H. Zhao , L. H. Deng , F. Y. Li , Y. J. Wang , X. W. Tan

Observations with {\em RHESSI} have enabled the detailed study of the structure of dense hard X-ray coronal sources in solar flares. The variation of source extent with electron energy has been discussed in the context of streaming of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Natasha L. S. Jeffrey , Eduard P. Kontar , Nicolas H. Bian , A. Gordon Emslie

The temperature distribution of the emitting plasma is a crucial constraint when studying the heating of solar flare footpoints. However, determining this for impulsive phase footpoints has been difficult in the past due to insufficient…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 D. R. Graham , I. G. Hannah , L. Fletcher , R. O. Milligan

The solar corona is full of dynamic phenomena, e.g., solar flares, micro flares in active regions, jets in coronal holes and in the polar regions, X-ray bright points in quiet regions, etc. They are accompanied by interesting physical…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-06-15 Noriyuki Narukage , Shin-nosuke Ishikawa , Tomoko Kawate , Shinsuke Imada , Taro Sakao

The plasma parameters such as the electron density and temperature plays a key role in the dynamics of the solar atmosphere. These characteristics are important in solar physics, because they can help to understand the physics in the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-12 J. M Rodríguez Gómez , L. Vieira , A. Dal Lago , J. Palacios

We present new RHESSI upper limits in the 3-200 keV energy range for solar hard X-ray emission in the absence of flares and active regions, i.e. the quiet Sun, using data obtained between July 2005 and April 2009. These new limits,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 I. G. Hannah , H. S. Hudson , G. J. Hurford , R. P. Lin

We investigate the X-ray and UV emission detected by RHESSI and TRACE in the context of a solar flare on the 16th November 2002 with the goal of better understanding the evolution of the flare. We analysed the characteristics of the X-ray…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Hamish A. S. Reid , Nicole Vilmer , Guillaume Aulanier , Etienne Pariat

Dynamics of hot chromospheric plasma of solar flares is a key to understanding of mechanisms of flare energy release and particle acceleration. A moderate M1.0 class flare of 12 June, 2014 (SOL2014-06-12T21:12) was simultaneously observed…

We study the non-thermal emissions in a solar flare occurring on 2003 May 29 by using RHESSI hard X-ray (HXR) and Nobeyama microwave observations. This flare shows several typical behaviors of the HXR and microwave emissions: time delay of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Minoshima , T. Yokoyama , N. Mitani

The light curves of solar flares in the impulsive phase are complex in general, indicating that multiple physical processes are involved in. With the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) observations, we find that there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 HAN , Fei-ran , LIU , Si-ming

We present coordinated coronal observations of the August 21, 2017 total solar eclipse with the Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) and the Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). These instruments provide an unprecedented…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-07 Chad A. Madsen , Jenna E. Samra , Giulio Del Zanna , Edward E. DeLuca

Nonthermal electrons accelerated in solar flares produce electromagnetic emission in two distinct, highly complementary domains - hard X-rays (HXRs) and microwaves (MWs). This paper reports MW imaging spectroscopy observations from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Natsuha Kuroda , Gregory D. Fleishman , Dale E. Gary , Gelu M. Nita , Bin Chen , Sijie Yu